ER Treatment: Tasering
Let's keep in mind that alcohol is a legal substance, public intoxication is not a crime and emergency rooms are for medical treatment, not torture.
Because nobody deserves this.
Valerie Honeycutt Spears at the Herald:
A London woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the London Police Department and St. Joseph London Hospital, saying that she was placed in leather restraints in the emergency room and that police shocked her with a stun gun.London is on I-75, close to the Tennessee border. That's the main drag between Florida and Canada. I'd recommend, for the sake of Kentucky's reputation, that they take down the "hospital" signs for the London exit and instead post some reading: "If you need police help or medical attention, keep driving."
The lawsuit, filed last month in U.S. District Court in London, says Jami Jackson suffered severe fear, pain, anguish and consternation during and after being shocked with a stun gun several times about the neck by a London police officer, the complaint said.
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ackson was driven to Saint Joseph London by her father and brother for medical treatment after she became "extremely intoxicated," the lawsuit says.
Nursing staff or other staff members called London police because Jackson was "noncompliant," the suit says.
A doctor ordered Jackson to be bound at the hands and feet in leather restraints to her bed in a private room in the emergency room, the lawsuit says. An officer later responded to the staff's call and apparently shocked Jackson, according to the lawsuit.
"I believe that there is a point when the use of a Taser weapon is unnecessary or unreasonable," Jackson's attorney Jason Scott Kincer told the Herald-Leader, "and I certainly believe when someone is in such a vulnerable position as being in a hospital bed in four-point restraints under the care of a physician, I find it hard to believe in any instance that the use of a Taser is necessary."
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